Lastly, you can't deny that reading about how she was making burrows and thinking it was doing anything was fucking hilarious.
That sums up the BEST parts of the whole article.
And while first time I played, I didn't make the burrow mistake (since they didn't exist yet), I could not for the life of me find out that < and > did anything. After a while of digging, I was like, "Ooh, out of the U menu I can zoom to my dorfs!", and then I was like, "AAH! WHERE IS MY FORTRESS? WHY IS THE MAP ALL DIFFERENT? I'M LOOKING EVERYWHERE, NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST, BUT NOTHING IS DUG ANYMORE?!". Which is actually... Well, she got the hang of that a whole fort or two earlier then I did. Yeah, two forts earlier, since it seems she figured it out on her first.
After my first initial breakthrough/breakdown, I figured out that there were more than one Z level, but not how to use them. So I would zoom to a dorf, hope he was on the level I was looking for, and if he wasn't, look for a dorf that was and zoom to him. And I had no idea how stairs worked. Yeah, stairs were just awful. Trying to line them up after zooming to a dorf to find the right level? Heh, and that's after I finally figured out that building a down stair DOESN'T make an up stair.
I found the article more of a just-for-laughs-and-giggles read, and that the author was a hoot. Someone introduce her to NetHack.